Press Releases

February 13, 2020

Chicago, IL -- Today, the Sierra Club announced that it’s launching their first Victory Corps campaign of the cycle in support of Marie Newman. The Sierra Club endorsed Newman late last month, their second endorsement of a challenger to a Democratic incumbent this cycle. 

The Victory Corps program embeds staff on campaigns to mobilize Sierra Club members and contact voters on behalf of endorsed candidates.

February 13, 2020

INDIANAPOLIS — The Sierra Club this week launched a statewide radio ad campaign urging residents to demand that the state Senate reject HB 1414, a piece of dangerous and unnecessary legislation that would slow the retirement of Indiana’s aging, polluting coal fleets, lead to higher bills for families and businesses, and worsen the climate crisis.

13 de febrero de 2020

La administración Trump notificó hoy al Congreso que va a transferir $3.800 millones más de fondos militares para la construcción de su muro fronterizo.

February 13, 2020

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hosted a public comment session on the state of Utah’s do-nothing regional haze plan. In April 2019, Utah submitted a regional haze proposal to the EPA for the third time in eight years to continue operation of the Hunter and Huntington coal plants without pollution controls.

February 13, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Top House Republicans unveiled part of their legislative plan to reduce carbon emissions.These plans are myopically focused on carbon capture and sequestration while preserving the fossil fuel industry, failing to significantly address greenhouse gas emissions and the fossil fuel industry. 

February 12, 2020

This week the 37-year-old Sims coal fired power plant in Grand Haven will be shut down permanently in accordance with plans made one year ago by the Grand Haven Board of Light & Power after sustained advocacy by Sierra Club, its local volunteers along with many community members.

February 12, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Westerman today introduced the Trillion Trees Act. The bill is one of three components of Republicans’ legislative attempts to address climate change. Trump has endorsed tree planting to fight climate change, despite repeatedly denying the current climate crisis.

12 de febrero de 2020

BlackRock, la mayor firma inversora del mundo, anunció hoy que uno de sus fondos de inversión de mayor crecimiento dejará de invertir en arenas bituminosas, la fuente del crudo más tóxico del planeta.

February 12, 2020

Today, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, announced that one of its fastest-growing sustainable funds will stop investing in tar sands, one of the dirtiest fuel sources on the planet.

February 12, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, Senator Udall and Representative Lowenthal, joined by Senator Merkley and Representative Clark, released the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2020, a landmark bill aimed at addressing the growing problem of plastic pollution and protecting public health by phasing out single-use plastic, holding corporate polluters accountable for the plastic waste they produce, reducing plastic packaging, and updating the current plastic recycling system. The bill would also halt the production of new plastics plants, while the EPA reexamines the impacts of plastics to air and water.